The only mandate that had any real teeth behind it was the federal employee mandate. The contractor and other mandates were illegal from the onset and got shot down fast as fuck in the courts.
The feds called my company (Class I railroad) contractors because we haul federal freight at times without having a contract to do so, they're just another customer, but of course management caved and complied with the "We're all in this together" mantra. They offered us a few hundred dollars and a day off to get the vax. I told them my antibodies and health were worth a whole lot more than that, including the nice paychecks they pay me, and never got shit.
I was far from alone in doing this, and at the time the company was giving hand jobs around the corner just trying to get people to hire on, 18% yearly resignation attrition on top of retirements and a hiring freeze through early covid gutted our ranks while a two year apprenticeship means it takes a long time to replace manpower. Of course, I'm still working there because I knew ASGH, the issue was quietly dropped with the same line "We didn't mean to try to make you do something you didn't want to do, we're still friends, right?" It's no coincidence it coincided with us also voting to go on strike at the same time...
The companies begging for people they fired to come back is hilarious and shameful, that letter passing the buck to the government making the calls like they had nothing to do with those decisions is . Kaiser Permanente were 100% on the clot shot train, I remember the statements they were putting out, and their website is still full of all the bullshit. https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.or...-information/vaccine-learn/safe-and-effective
Fuck them with a pineapple.
The feds called my company (Class I railroad) contractors because we haul federal freight at times without having a contract to do so, they're just another customer, but of course management caved and complied with the "We're all in this together" mantra. They offered us a few hundred dollars and a day off to get the vax. I told them my antibodies and health were worth a whole lot more than that, including the nice paychecks they pay me, and never got shit.
I was far from alone in doing this, and at the time the company was giving hand jobs around the corner just trying to get people to hire on, 18% yearly resignation attrition on top of retirements and a hiring freeze through early covid gutted our ranks while a two year apprenticeship means it takes a long time to replace manpower. Of course, I'm still working there because I knew ASGH, the issue was quietly dropped with the same line "We didn't mean to try to make you do something you didn't want to do, we're still friends, right?" It's no coincidence it coincided with us also voting to go on strike at the same time...
The companies begging for people they fired to come back is hilarious and shameful, that letter passing the buck to the government making the calls like they had nothing to do with those decisions is . Kaiser Permanente were 100% on the clot shot train, I remember the statements they were putting out, and their website is still full of all the bullshit. https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.or...-information/vaccine-learn/safe-and-effective
Fuck them with a pineapple.